In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to…
Mapping continuous raw scores from millions of Advanced Placement examinations onto the 1 to 5 integer scoring scale, we apply a regression…
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly…
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale
experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal…
Behavioral economic research has established that defaults, one form of nudge, powerfully influence choices. In most policy contexts, all…
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently…
State and local government pension funds in the United States collectively manage a very large and diverse pool of assets to meet the even…
Criticism dogged Hillary Clinton at every step of the general election. Her “bad press” outpaced her “good press” by 64 percent to 36…
Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their…
Special Economic Zones (SEZ) have played an important role in Panama's successful growth story over the previous decade. SEZ have attracted…